Women and ‘The Wire’

By Sophie Jones

Why the most intelligent show on TV, a compelling exploration of the circumstances and institutional pressures that make people who they are, gets an "F" in Gender Studies. [25 August 2008]

The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

By Chris Barsanti

The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years. [15 August 2008]

The Wire

By Jesse Hicks

In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality. [27 January 2008]

The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season

By Bruce Dancis

The 4th season DVD shows why The Wire is the best show on TV. [10 December 2007]

The Wire

By Jesse Hicks

This is the consequence of America's broken systems: a young boy staring into the darkness, wondering what else his future might bring. [20 September 2006]

Channel Surfing: You Can Make This Stuff Up: The Do-It-Yourself Nature of HBO’s ‘The Wire’